The anticodon is the signal sequence for mitochondrial import of glutamine tRNA in Tetrahymena

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 2870-2880

  Rusconi, Christopher P ^a,b   Cech, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

mitochondria; RNA import; RNA localization; Tetrahymena transformation; tRNA structure

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINE TRANSFER RNA; GLUTAMINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

AMINOACYLATION; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSPORT; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0029834860     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.22.2870     Document Type: Article

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